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Excerpt from Minutes of the Fifty-First Annual Session of the Cedar Grove Missionary Baptist Association, Which Convened With the Saint James Baptist Church, Leasburg, N. C., August 7, 8 and 9, 1918 You. Rev. G. A. Currie then read hymn No. 149. Scripture reading, Luke 5 1-9. Prayer was offered by Rev. Luther Brad sher. Bro. B. Theo. Hairstone, editor and proprietor of the Headlight, with much melody and earnestness sang the Revela tion song. Then the regular appointees gave way to Rev. S. B. Brown, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Reidsville, N. C. After an introduction. Rev. Brown was ready, watching and waiting, Subject: Too Many Churches. He said, in part: Don't you get mad because I am going to preach the gospel. If you have been living crooked just straighten up. Chri'st set up only one church, and if there are others, there are t'oo many. All denominations shall be broken up and have one church. J ereboam established a kind of religion, but it could not stand. Every denomination, except three, came out of the Baptist Church. Rev. Brown preached a great sermon. It met with approval from all the people. At the close of the sermon prayer was offered by Rev. Wm. Morton. A collection was lifted by Revs. S. Wade and J. H. Love. Amount raised, $10. The association adjourned with benediction by Rev. C. P. Williamson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.